Tool for splicing and tightening barbed wire



June 4, 1940. G, D, REGAS 2,203,238

TOOL FOR SPLICING AND. TIGHTENING- BARBED WIRE Filed Sept. 15, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 June 1940- G. D. REGAS 2,203,238

TOOL FOR SPLICING AND TIGHTENING BARBED WIRE Filed Sept. 15, 1939 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 4, 1940 I I v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFHCE TOOL FOR SPLIGING AND TIGHTENING BARBED WIRE Gust D. Regas, Newell, S. Dak. 7

Application September 15, 1939, Serial N0. 295,150

6 Claims. (Cl. 254161) This invention relates to wire tighteners and secured in any suitable manner upstanding opermore particularly to a tool for splicing and tightating handles 6. Depending from the lower surening the barbed wires of fences and the like. face of the bar and preferably formed integral The object of the invention is to provide a tool therewith is a tapered loop or knot-forming pin 5 of simple and inexpensive construction, by means i, the small end of which is preferablypointed, 5

of which the adjacent ends of a broken barbed as indicated at 8.

wire may be securely connected and the slack in Disposed on opposite sides of the pin 1 are the wire taken up so as to keep the fence wires wire-gripping members 9, each consisting of a tight and uniformly spaced at all times. fiat disk It mounted for rotation on a pin ii A further object of the invention is to provide extending through the body portion or bar 5 in 10 a tool of the class described comprisinga bar spaced relation to the adjacent handle 6. The having oppositely disposed wire-gripping memperiphery of the disk It is formed with a dependbers mounted thereon and provided with an ining guard flange I2 having a portion thereof cut termediate loop-forming pin, said bar having opaway to form a stop lug l3. Mounted for rotation erating handles extending laterally from one side on the pin II and bearing against the adjacent thereof so that by gripping said handles and parface of the disk II] is an eccentric M, the edge of tially rotating the tool the pin will form a conwhich is preferably corrugated or roughened, as necting knot or loop at the broken ends of the ndica d at so as to preve t pp 0f the wire and a further rotation of the tool will take barbed wire when taking p the Slack thereinup all sag or slack in said wire. Slidably mounted on the eccentric M is a latch 29 A still further object of the invention is genv0r keeper l6 having a slot I! therein for the reerally to improve this class of devices so as to inception of the pin II, d bearing against the crease their utility, durability and efficiency. keeper is a Washer t ja end Of the In the acompanying drawings forming a part pin ll being upset to form a head It which bears of this specification and in which similar nuagainst said washer and serves to hold. the sev- 25 merals of reference indicate corresponding parts eral l e s Co p s the pp be in all the figures of the drawings: in position on the bar 5. One end of the latch Figure 1 is a side elevation of a combined wire or keeper i6 is provided with a reduced neck 26 splicing and tightening tool constructed in acterminating in a v s y disposed fi 30 cordance with the present invention, piece 2| to facilitate moving the keeper to Oper- 30 v Figure 2 is a, top plan view, ative and inoperative positions. The keeper l6 Figure 3 is a similar view showing the manner is 80 disposed that, When a fOrWard gitud a of forming a loop or knot in the broken ends of movement is imparted thereto, the f ee end of the barbed wire for connecting the same, the keeper Will fi Over the y Portion Figure 4 is a detail perspective view of one the flange and bear against the p i3 30' 35 of the wire-gripping members, the parts thereof as to confine the adjacent end of t e broken being shown separated and in position to be asbarbed Wire between the flange and the eesembledon the body of the tool, centric it. When the keeper it is moved to re- Figure 5 is a detail transverse sectional view traeted Position, the Wire Will be P ed and 40 showing the manner of inserting the broken end the tool y b easily removed e rn, as 40 of a barbed wire in one of the gripping members, Will be readily understood- Figure 6 is a similar view showing the corru- In operation, the p s t are moved to re gated eccentric disk gripping the wire, tracted position and the broken ends of the Figure 7 is a side elevation showing the tool barbed wires inserted between the flanges i2 in position on a'barbed ir fence, and eccentrics It, as best shown in. Figure 5 of 45 Figure 8 is a similar view showing the toolparthe drawings, after Which e e p are tially rotated, and moved forwardly until said keepers engage the Figure 9 is a side elevation showing the posiep u t Preventing accidental d s tion of the tool after connecting the broken ends placement of the broken dS 0f the barbed wire of the barbed wire and taking up the slack therein. during the spl in p r The p in 0 The improved barbed wire splicing and tighthandles 5 are then grasped and the 0001 parening tool forming the subject-matter of the tially rotated which'causes the broken ends of present invention comprises a longitudinally disthe barbed wire to coil around the pin 1 and posed body portion 5, preferably in the form of a thus form a connecting loop or knot 22 in said 5|! flat metal bar, to the opposite ends of which are wires, as best shown in Figure 3 of the drawings.

A further rotation of the tool will cause the clamping members to exert a longitudinal pull on the barbed wires so as to take up any sag or slack therein. After the broken ends of the barbed wires have been connected by the knot or loop 22 and the desired tension imparted to the fence wire, the tool may be readily removed from the barbed wire by moving the keepers It to retracted position and allowing the knot or loop 22 to slip over the pointed end of the pin 1, as will be readily understood.

It will, of course, be understood that the tools may be made in difierent sizes and shapes and constructed of any suitable material without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, whatis claimed as new is:

l. A tool of the class described comprising a body portion having handles projecting from one side thereof, a loop-forming device extending laterally from the other side of the body portion, and wire-gripping members mounted on the body portion at opposite sides of the loop-forming device.

2. A tool of the class described comprising a longitudinally disposed bar, operating handles projecting from one side of the bar, an intermediate loop-forming pin extending laterally from the other side of said bar, and wire-gripping members mounted on the bar adjacent the handles.

3 A tool of the class described comprising a bar, a loop-forming pin projecting from one side of the bar, operating handles on said bar for rotating the tool, Wire-gripping members pivotally mounted on the bar at opposite ends thereof and each comprising a disk having a lateral guard flange, a portion of which is cut-away to form a stop lug, an eccentric disposed in contact with the disk, a keeper slidably mounted on the eccentric and movable into engagement with the stop lug, and a pin mounted on the bar and extending through the disk, eccentric and keeper for holding the parts in assembled position.

4. A tool of the class described comprising a bar, a loop-forming pin extending laterally from one side of the bar intermediate its length, operating handles extending laterally from the opposite side of the bar, and wire-gripping members pivotally mounted on the bar at opposite sides of the loop-forming pin and. each provided with a sliding keeper for preventing displacement of a barbed wire when in position on the gripping member.

5. A tool of the class described comprising a bar, spaced wire-gripping members mounted on one side of the 'bar and adapted to clamp the adjacent ends-of a broken barbed wire, operating handles extending laterally from the other side of the bar, and a wire-engaging pin disposed between the wire-gripping members whereby when the tool is rotated the pin will form a loop in the wire to connect the broken ends of said wire and simultaneously take up slack in the wire 6. A tool of the class described comprising a body portion, operating handles carried by the body portion, a wire loop-forming pin extending from one side of the body portion, and wiregripping members mounted on the body portion at each side of the loop-forming pin, each wiregripping member comprising a rotating disk having a guard flange terminating in a stop lug, an eccentric engaging the disk, alongitudinally slotted keeper, and a pin extending through the body portion and said disk, eccentric and keeper respectively for rotatably holding the parts in position on the body portion, said keeper being provided with a reduced neck terminating in a lateral finger-piece for moving the keeper in and out of engagement with the stop lug GUST D. REGAS. 

